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We present a publicly available code called Hammurabi for generating mock polarized observations of Galactic synchrotron emission for telescopes like LOFAR, SKA, Planck and WMAP, based on model inputs for the Galactic magnetic field (GMF),…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Waelkens , T. Jaffe , M. Reinecke , F. S. Kitaura , T. A. Ensslin

We present a new approach in modelling the polarized Galactic synchrotron emission in the microwave range (20-100 GHz), where this radiation is expected to play the leading role in contaminating the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) data.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Bernardi , E. Carretti , R. Fabbri , C. Sbarra , S. Poppi , S. Cortiglioni

We present simulated observations of gas kinematics in galaxies formed in 10 pc resolution cosmological simulations with the hydrodynamical + N-body code RAMSES, using the new RAMSES2HSIM pipeline with the simulated observing pipeline…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-11 Mark L. A. Richardson , Laurence Routledge , Niranjan Thatte , Matthias. Tecza , Ryan C. W. Houghton , Miguel Pereira-Santaella , Dimitra Rigopoulou

Several platforms are currently being explored for simulating physical systems whose complexity increases faster than polynomially with the number of particles or degrees of freedom in the system. Defects and vacancies in semiconductors or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 Natalia G. Berloff , Kirill Kalinin , Matteo Silva , Wolfgang Langbein , Pavlos G. Lagoudakis

Diagnostics of polarized emission provide us with valuable information on the Galactic magnetic field and the state of turbulence in the interstellar medium, which cannot be obtained from synchrotron intensity alone. In Paper I (Herron et…

[ABRIDGED] The knowledge of the regular component of the Galactic magnetic field gives important information about the structure and dynamics of the Milky Way, as well as constitutes a basic tool to determine cosmic rays trajectories. It…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 B. Ruiz-Granados , J. A. Rubino-Martin , E. Battaner

We introduce synax, a novel library for automatically differentiable simulation of Galactic synchrotron emission. Built on the JAX framework, synax leverages JAX's capabilities, including batch acceleration, just-in-time compilation, and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-26 Kangning Diao , Zack Li , Richard D. P. Grumitt , Yi Mao

We build template maps for the polarized Galactic--synchrotron emission on large angular scales (FWHM =~7$^\circ$), in the 20-90 GHz microwave range, by using WMAP data. The method, presented in a recent work, requires a synchrotron total…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Bernardi , E. Carretti , R. Fabbri , C. Sbarra , S. Poppi , S. Cortiglioni , J. L. Jonas

The polarization of X-ray emission is a unique tool used to investigate the magnetic field structure around astrophysical objects. In this paper, we study the linear polarization of X-ray emissions from gamma-ray binary systems based on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-17 Xingxing Hu , Jumpei Takata

Some recent extensions to the GALPROP cosmic-ray propagation package are described. The enhancements include: an accurate solution option, improved convection formulation, alternative spatial boundary conditions, polarized synchrotron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-05 A. W. Strong

We present 3D models of the Galactic magnetic field including regular and turbulent components, and of the distribution of matter in the Galaxy including relativistic electrons and dust grains. By integrating along the line of sight, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-03-26 L. Fauvet , J. F. Macías-Pérez , F. X. Désert

A new, much improved model of the Galactic Magnetic Field (GMF) is presented. We use the WMAP7 Galactic Synchrotron Emission map and more than forty thousand extragalactic rotation measures to constrain the parameters of the GMF model,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-04 Ronnie Jansson , Glennys R. Farrar

HEALPix -- the Hierarchical Equal Area iso-Latitude Pixelization -- is a versatile data structure with an associated library of computational algorithms and visualization software that supports fast scientific applications executable…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-05 K. M. Gorski , E. Hivon , A. J. Banday , B. D. Wandelt , F. K. Hansen , M. Reinecke , M. Bartelman

Polarization is a powerful diagnostic tool to constrain the site of the high-energy pulsed emission and particle acceleration in gamma-ray pulsars. Recent particle-in-cell simulations of pulsar magnetosphere suggest that high-energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-28 Benoît Cerutti , Jérémy Mortier , Alexander A. Philippov

The emission from the relativistically hot plasmas of high-energy astrophysical synchrotron sources, pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) in particular, depends on the level of magnetic fluctuations. Recent observations by the X-ray polarimeter IXPE…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-22 Luca Del Zanna , Niccolò Bucciantini , Simone Landi

We present for the first time a coherent model of the polarized Galactic synchrotron and thermal dust emissions which are the main diffuse foreground for the measurement of the polarized power spectra of the CMB fluctuations with the Planck…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 L. Fauvet , J. F. Macías-Pérez , J. Aumont , F. X. Désert , T. R. Jaffe , A. J. Banday , M. Tristram , A. H. Waelkens , D. Santos

We present a modular user-oriented simulation toolbox for studying highharmonic generation in gases. The first release consists of the computational pipeline to 1) compute the unidirectional IR-pulse propagation incylindrical symmetry, 2)…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-06 Jan Vábek , Tadeáš Němec , Stefan Skupin , Fabrice Catoire

Templates for polarised emission from Galactic foregrounds at frequencies relevant to Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarisation experiments are obtained by modelling the Galactic Magnetic Field (GMF) on large scales. This work extends…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-21 C. N. Clark , C. R. Contaldi , C. J. MacTavish

We recently proposed polariton graphs as a novel platform for solving hard optimization problems that can be mapped into the $XY$ model. Here, we elucidate a relationship between the energy spectrum of the $XY$ Hamiltonian and the total…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-11-25 Kirill Kalinin , Pavlos G. Lagoudakis , Natalia G. Berloff

Cosmic rays and magnetic fields can substantially impact the launching of large-scale galactic winds. Many researchers have investigated the role of cosmic rays; our group previously showed that a cosmic-ray and thermally-driven wind could…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-02-11 John E. Everett , Quintin G. Schiller , Ellen G. Zweibel
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